Some of you might be asking yourself, at this very moment: is New Mexico a good place?

The answer is unequivocally yes… if you know where to locate the best places to live in New Mexico.

Lucky for you, we’re here to help you identify the best counties to live in the Land Of Enchantment based on the most recently available data from the Census. And this isn’t our first rodeo — we’ve been helping people find the best places to live in America for years.

So, the question becomes, if you wanted to relocate to the best pat of New Mexico, where would you go? To answer that we looked at crime, cost of living, and demographic data for all 28 counties in the state.

After the analytic dust settled, we identified the 10 best counties to live in Land Of Enchantment for 2018:

How do you determine which New Mexico county is the best?

To give you the best county in New Mexico, we have to look at a handful of metrics that signal the quality of a place. To do that, we need to make some assumptions about what’s a ‘best county’ and what isn’t. And, for reference, we are trying to make the kind of argument you’d make at a bar using facts, don’t take this analysis to court.